Romana Marzaduri

Romana Marzaduri (Bologna - 1956)

The color of her works, alludes to some profound aspects of the soul, its relationships with feelings, matter and materiality, and serves as a link between the worlds of passion and realism.
In this sense, the contemporary panorama offers as a reference point the "magical realism" of Hopper.
Romana depicts faces in rarefied interiors or urban landscapes in their everyday mediocrity. And even when life seems to be there, loneliness and detachment take over.
The figures become almost anonymous in a disenchanted realism.
To believe in the representation of reality and in the objective fidelity of the vision, expressing solitude, banality, the usual, in an explosion of colors wrapped in silence.
Painting the contemporary seems vaguely a bit out of fashion, but the photographic cut highlights emotions, feelings, pain and joy going beyond the simple description of what is represented. Is reality what is seen or what we want to see ...?
As the word itself says, "Magical Realism" is poetry located halfway between the magical element, surrealistic and realistic representation, without neglecting any detail, but with the inclusion of "magical" elements (sometimes even only one) while described just ...

Curriculum vitae:

Romana Marzaduri (b. 1956, Bologna, Italy)

Daughter of a decorator and restorer.
Since childhood breathes art and color.
She, too, restores and then draws and creates.
Graduates as fashion designer and for 20 years works in the fashion world,
after a 6-year experience as commercial graphic designer.
Suffering a serious illness stops her. Then the fight and the victory.
Painting becomes therapy and principal activity in a rediscovered serenity
thanks also to the practice of yoga.

Exhibitions:

2003 - solo exhibition - Golem Arte Bologna
2004 - group show - Galleria De Marchi Bologna
2004 - group show - Hotel Drapperie Bologna
2005 - solo exhibition - Galleria 18 Bologna
2006 - group show - Galleria Mama 1088 Bologna
2007 - group show - Sorsimorsi San Giovanni in Persiceto
2008 - solo exhibition - Spazio Forma Bologna
2009 - group show - Tre Bologna
2013 - group show - DuePuntiLab Bologna
2014 - solo exhibition - Fandango Marina di Ravenna
2015 - group show - Manifatture Knos Lecce
2017 - solo exibition - Galleria B4
Bologna
2018 - solo exibition - NordEst cafe
Milano
2018 - solo exibition - Mono
Milano
2018 - solo exibition - Fun&Cool
Milano
2019 - solo exibition - Galleria B4
Bologna